Outcome in place of an expected threat diminishes recovery of defensive responses

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 203-209

  Dunsmoor, Joseph E ^a,b   Campese, Vinn D ^a   Ceceli, Ahmet O ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Arousal; Electrodermal; Fear; Pavlovian; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; THREAT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936986586     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.12.008     Document Type: Article

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